Ledet said afterwards that he hadn’t planned on crying but became overwhelmed when judge Jennifer Lopez and others came up to hug him after the results were announced.

“I felt good about the whole situation, but when people come up to you and try to comfort you and hug you, then the tears start coming, and then a whole bunch of other stuff,” said Ledet, who also pulled his mother on stage at the end of the show. “So just getting their support, it kind of took over, and I kind of lost it a little.”